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Special Services

Disabilities

  • Section 504 Office of Civil Rights
    • An important responsibility of the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is to eliminate discrimination on the basis of disability against students with disabilities.

Early Childhood

  • Birth to 3 Services Waukesha County
    • The Birth to 3 Program in Waukesha County – Lutheran Social Services is committed to supporting families with children under the age of three with developmental delays, disabilities or atypical development.
  • Child Find Preschool Screening Information for Families
    • Child Find is a continuous process of public awareness activities designed to identify, locate, and evaluate all children with disabilities who may be in need of early intervention programs or special education as early as possible.

Homeless Services

McKinney-Vento Program

The goal of the McKinney-Vento program is to provide support for students who are facing homelessness. School districts are responsible for removing all barriers homeless students might experience to allow for equal access to all educational services. The McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Act was originally signed into law in 1987.

Who is Homeless?

Under the McKinney-Vento Act, a school district identifies students who are homeless based on criteria set forth within the Act. Those guidelines include the language:

  • Sharing housing due to loss of housing, economic hardship or similar reason
  • Living in motels and trailer parks due to lack of alternative adequate accommodations
  • Living in emergency or transitional shelters, abandoned in hospitals, or awaiting foster care placement
  • Living in cars, parks, public spaces, substandard housing
  • Having a primary nighttime residence that is a public or private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings
  • Migratory children who live in any of the above circumstances

John Peterson
Assistant Superintendent of Special Services
Homeless Liaison
Email: petejo@hamilton.k12.wi.us
Phone: 262-246-1973 x1184

Special Education

Transition and Community-Based Resources